plow

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.

n. An implement of similar function, such as a snowplow.

transitive v. To break and turn over (earth) with a plow.

transitive v. To form (a furrow, for example) with a plow.

transitive v. To form furrows in with or as if with a plow: plow a field.

transitive v. To make or form with driving force: I plowed my way through the crowd.

transitive v. To cut through (water): plow the high seas.

intransitive v. To break and turn up earth with a plow.

intransitive v. To admit of plowing: Rocky earth plows poorly.

intransitive v. To move or progress with driving force: The attackers formed a wedge and plowed through the enemy line.

intransitive v. To proceed laboriously; plod: plowed through the backlog of work.

plow back To reinvest (earnings or profits) in one's business.

plow into Informal To strike with force.

plow into Informal To undertake (a task, for example) with eagerness and vigor.

plow under To cause to vanish under something piled up.

plow under To overwhelm, as with burdens.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of plough.

v. Alternative spelling of plough.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes

n. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

n. A carucate of land; a plowland.

n. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

n. An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

n. Same as Charles's Wain.

intransitive v. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

transitive v. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow

transitive v. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

transitive v. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

transitive v. To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To turn up with a plow; till.

To make furrows, grooves, or ridges in, as with a plow; furrow; figuratively, to move through like a plow; make one's way through.

To effect as with a plow; traverse like a plow.

To trim or square, as the edges of paper, with a plow. See plow, n., 3 .

To cut or gash (a fish) with the plow or rimmer.

To reject, as a candidate in an examination; pluck.

To turn up the soil with a plow; till the soil with a plow.

In carpentry, to groove the edge of (a board) in tonguing and grooving.

To turn over (grain) in malting, so as to expose fresh surfaces to the air and equalize temperature.

n. An agri cultural implement, drawn by animals or moved by steam-power, used to cut the ground and turn it up so as to prepare it for the reception of seeds.

n. Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture.

n. A tool that furrows, grooves, planes, cuts, or otherwise acts by pushing or shoving, like a plow, , , ,

n. A plowland.

n. A plow which can be adjusted to turn a furrow either to the right or to the left. Also called drillplow, reversible plow, and turningmold-board plow.

n. A plow having a wheel in the space between the land-side and the mold-board, reducing the friction of the plow by bearing the weight. E. H. Knight. (See also balance-plow, ice-plow, prairie-plow, snow-plow, sodplow.)

n.

n. An arm and wooden mold-board, shod with leather, two of which in a gunpowder-incorporating mill serve to draw the mixture of niter, sulphur, and charcoal into the track of the heavy edge-runners.

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